Red, White and GOP Hard-Liner Blues

“House Republicans finally cleared a runway this week to finish some of their top legislative priorities before the July 4 recess,” Politico reports.

“That is, unless a small band of hard-liners trip up those plans at takeoff.”

“Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to move quickly to pass fiscal 2027 appropriations legislation, the annual defense policy bill and a kids online safety bill that has been years in the making. The movement comes after President Donald Trump instructed GOP hard-liners to stop holding up a procedural vote amid a protest from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and others that the Senate hadn’t passed Trump’s election security bill.”

“But Luna and other hard-liners are still threatening to tank the procedural vote that could delay the defense policy bill and other measures until they get concessions on the SAVE America Act, amid other demands.”